Bread and Roses

Bread and Roses is a collective of women identified radio activists. We offer feminist public affairs programming. We give voice to those working for social justice and equity, globally and locally. We strive to challenge systems of oppression. All this, and we have fun!

Children’s health. In 2011 the Children’s Community Clinic provided over 3,300 healthcare visits for children. Of this number 13.6% of them were uninsured; 85.7% were on the Oregon Health Plan, and less than 1% had private insurance. Guest: Mardica Hicks, CEO of CCC www.CCC4kids.org

Word Gravity. Words and expressions that we use may mean one thing to us, but also hold a totally different meaning to others. Join narrator/operator Laura Wieking of Word Bridge to discuss the impact of the words we use. www.thewordbridge.com

Counter Clockwise,My Year of Hypnosis, Hormones, Dark Chocolate, and Other Adventures in the World of Anti-aging is Lauren Kessler's new book. "Lauren Kessler is an intrepid reporter, immersion journalist, and mid-life woman on a quest to turn back the hands of time as she delves into the real science (and the real hucksterism) of anti-aging."

She will discuss with Bread and Roses' host, Delphine Criscenzo, what our society associates with young, the difference between your chronological clock and your biological clock and all that she tried during her one-year-experiment, to turn back the hands of time.

Bread and Roses welcomes the women behind The Concertina Wire, a weekly radio program on KWVA Eugene 88.1FM and kwvaradio.org. The show highlights the written work and narrative stories of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals–particularly women and minorities. It features poetry, prose, music, interviews and news—by, for, and with currently or formerly incarcerated individuals, their families, and friends. “The program provides a unique and positive outlet for this population and empowers guests to have a public voice.”

There were over 190,000 people aged 65 and older living in the PDX metro area as of the 2010 census according to the Greater Portland Pulse. By 2030 that number is expected to grow to almost 395,000. Villages NW is a new nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon whose mission it is to embrace the strategy of bringing services to people rather than moving people to services . Chana Andler, founder of Villages NW will guest in. www.VillagesNW.org

"WHAT KIND OF HOUSE DOES A MAN WHO HAS LIVED IN A 6' X9' BOX FOR OVER 30 YEARS DREAM OF?" This is the question that artist and activist Jackie Sumell asked Herman Wallace in 2003. Herman has been in solitary confinement or Closed Cell Restriction [CCR] for over 40 years. He spend most of these years at The Louisiana State Penitentiary, also know as Angola. He is one of the "Angola 3" along with Robert King and Albert Woodfox.

Listen to Jackie recount how she became aware of Herman's condition and how they collaborated on an art exhibit meant to raise awareness about the prison industrial complex and the trauma of solitary confinement.

Bread and Roses celebrates 35 years on the KBOO airwaves, the longest-running feminist radio show in the country!

We welcome Bread and Roses founder, Susan Dobrof, and 90's collective member, Pamlin Pegg. We'll discuss the early days of the collective, play clips from the Bread and Roses archives, and honor all the women over the years who lent their voices and energy to keep feminist radio alive.

Rose Bent, "a stand-out all-female hip-hop crew, joined forces in 2010 with a mission to represent the silenced voices of women in hip-hop. Hailing from Portland, Oregon, The City of Roses, Rose Bent is comprised of two aspiring musicians: Kheoshi & Jacque. Few of the select ladies in a genre some call dead, Rose Bent takes hip-hop for a thrilling and inspiring ride to the future."

They will talk about their passion for Hip Hop, their art and will rap Live!

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Lucia Pena, Faith Mayhew and Pina Williams talk about Racism in Oregon and organizing that they are involved with. Native American, Chicana and Balck groups that people could support are also discussed.

Maisie Crow, a photographer and film maker talks about her newest documentary film entitled “The Last Clinic” about the last women’s health clinic performing abortions in Mississippi. The state of Mississippi has recently enacted a law which threatens to close the Jackson’s women health organization, the last abortion clinic in the state in an effort to create “an abortion free state.” Maisie Crow talks to us about the law, the clinic, through the eyes of the many people she features in her film.

Started by a group of high schooler in Portland, OR this organization brings awareness to issues of modern day slavery and traficking happening in the world but also in the Portland area. Listen to learn more about the victims/slaves and the schemes that are put in place to trap them. You'll also hear what the youth of our city through YES are doing to end modern day slavery!

Portland like you've never seen it! Laura O. Foster takes us on a tour of the City! Laura is the author of numerous books about Portland including Portland Hill Walks, The Portland Stairs Book, Portland City Walks and Walk There. She has been writing about Oregon since 2001, after careers as a commercial banker, technical writer, and book editor. Raised in suburban Chicago, she moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1989. With the enthusiasm of a former flatlander, she writes about topics such as Portland’s public stairways, parks, neighborhoods, and urban planning, the animals and people of the Oregon Zoo, recycled paint, and Oregon geology, ethnobotany, natural areas, and native plants. She introduces us to new ways of exploring Portland and to the folklore and history you city's neighborhoods. Portland is a "walking Mecca" she says!

Cory hails from Portland, Oregon. She is a queer fierce fat femme, a cultural worker and educator. Her cultural work predominantly focuses on intersectionality and visibility within identity politics and social justice. Cory specifically dedicates her time to issues of fat identity, mujerisma, LGBTQ and racial justice, Latin@ visibility, and school/education reform. She is one of the founders of Eugene Sudbury School. Cory currently coaches students in their first year of college, writes for several blogs/websites and presents her workshop series on fat activism/identity, QTPOC intersectionality, mujerisma, environmental justice, social media social justice, and critical lenses on allyship. Contact her at corylira@gmail.com

Desiree Hellegers is Co-Director of the Center for Social and Environmental Justice, Associate Chair and Associate Professor of English at Washington State University, Vancouver. She is an active member of various advocacy organizations and her writing has appeared in such publications as Counterpunch.
Her book "No Room of Her Own- Women's Stories of Homelessness, Life, Death, and Resistance" is an oral history collection and brings together interviews with fifteen women who share the common experience of homelessness. All the interviews were conducted in Seattle, Washington between 1991 and 2008, but the women's stories zigzag across the country. The narrators recount stories of growing up in the south at the tail end of Jim Crow, of growing up gay and Black in the Pacific Northwest in the 1960s, and of surviving childhood molestation in Harlan, Kentucky in the 1970s. The stories illuminate the part that gender roles play in ensnaring women in cycles of domestic abuse and homelessness. They speak to the physical stresses of homelessness, and the toll it takes on bodies already weakened by high blood pressure, strokes, sickle cell anemia, and epilepsy and the routine threats of physical violence that homeless women in particular encounter on the street. At the same time, however, the stories challenge liberal myths about homeless people, and homeless women in particular, as vulnerable and dependent people worthy perhaps of sympathy but judged to be socially disorganized, disaffiliated and disempowered.